I hope children will be happy with the books I’ve written, and go on to be readers all of their lives.
BEVERLY CLEARYWe didn’t have television in those days, and many people didn’t even have radios. My mother would read aloud to my father and me in the evening.
More Beverly Cleary Quotes
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All knowledge is valuable to a librarian.
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She was not a slowpoke grownup. She was a girl who could not wait. Life was so interesting she had to find out what happened next.
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My mother would read aloud to my father and me in the evening. She read mainly travel books.
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I don’t necessarily start with the beginning of the book. I just start with the part of the story that’s most vivid in my imagination and work forward and backward from there.
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If we finished our work, the teacher would say, ‘Now don’t read ahead.’ But sometimes I hid the book I was reading behind my geography book and did read ahead. You can hide a lot behind a geography book.
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People are usually surprised to hear this, but I don’t really read children’s books.
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Children should learn that reading is pleasure, not just something that teachers make you do in school.
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I don’t think children’s inner feelings have changed. They still want a mother and father in the very same house; they want places to play.
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She means well, but she always manages to do the wrong thing. She has a real talent for it.
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The humiliation that Jane had felt turned to something else–grief perhaps, or regret. Regret that she had not known how to act with a boy, regret that she had not been wiser.
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Problem solving, and I don’t mean algebra, seems to be my life’s work. Maybe it’s everyone’s life’s work.
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Quite often somebody will say, What year do your books take place? and the only answer I can give is, In childhood.
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The key to writing successful YA is to keep the adults out of the story as much as possible.
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What interests me is what children go through while growing up.
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I just wrote about childhood as I had known it.
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